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The symbols are geomantic figures and this is what they translate to in Latin:

"Via conjunctio amissio fortuna-minor rubeus laetitia carcer."

I spent awhile trying to translate that to English but it became obvious that it wasnt meant to be. Although if it is meant to be translated it's telling some obscure story about some kind of journey as far as I can tell.

The order of the Latin words correspond perfectly to the nocturnal figures (of the geomancy) that represent the planets in our solar system in the order they are distanced from Earth. (at the furthest point of their orbits).

Moon: Via
Mercury: Conjunctio
Venus: Amissio
Sun: Fortuna Minor
Mars: Rubeus
Jupiter: Laetitia
Saturn: Carcer

Seems to go along with the whole "per audica ad astra" theme they got going on.

Another interesting, but probably meaningless, thing I found is that these geomantic symbols can be directly translated into binary. Since 1s and 0s don't make any sense to anyone other than computers I converted them to base 10 and came out with this:

15 6 5 3 2 1 9

And in binary for all you nerds to jism over,

1111 0110 0101 0011 0010 0001 1001

I have no idea what any of this means and have spent way too long deciphering this -blam!-. If you can piece together any of this to make any sort of sense then be my guest. I'm going to bed now.


[Edited on 07.11.2012 2:07 AM PDT]

  • 07.11.2012 1:14 AM PDT
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Nice job.

  • 07.11.2012 1:16 AM PDT

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I would suggest reposting this in the Community Forum. It's where people seem to be going for this topic and you are more likely to get a response on top of getting help there. Either way, very nice job on this. I feel like the Community is close to a break through on this. (Other than Spawn's YOUR MOM translation.)

  • 07.11.2012 1:38 AM PDT

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The fact that you tracked these symbols to their origin is all you are meant to know about them.

For now...

  • 07.11.2012 4:45 AM PDT

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I have years of formal training in Latin, but before I spend the ~10 minutes necessary to do a comprehensive translation, can you give me some pointers as to what this has to do with so I can get up to speed on the context? Bungie has in the past used improper Latin grammar so that is also something that needs to be taken into account.

  • 07.11.2012 8:45 AM PDT
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Posted by: DeeJ
The fact that you tracked these symbols to their origin is all you are meant to know about them.

For now...


Eh, the fact that there is so much depth and information behind these symbols I'm keen to believe otherwise. Don't really care who is telling me otherwise, even if they are associated with Bungie. In fact, I would probably trust them less in the event they are actively trying to dissuade anyone from finding the meaning behind whatever these clues are leading to.

Or maybe I'm just a little -blam!-ing crazy.

Either way it means I'm not going to stop spending a few minutes out of my day to look a little deeper into this mystery.

[Edited on 07.12.2012 7:30 PM PDT]

  • 07.12.2012 6:58 PM PDT

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Posted by: H0FFman J

Posted by: DeeJ
The fact that you tracked these symbols to their origin is all you are meant to know about them.

For now...
Yes, it is enough to have figured out their origin, but does that mean that we can't find out anything more about them, at this time?

  • 07.13.2012 2:22 AM PDT